When players log onto Adopt Me!, they are required to select the role of a parent or a baby to start playing. Based on the role chosen, players are granted a color in the chat area. Players who choose parent are red, and players who choose baby are blue.
Login Bonus
- Main article: Daily Reward
When players log in every 15 hours, they receive a daily login bonus known as the Daily Reward. This system allows them to claim the following day's reward early. If players choose to do so, they must wait 1 day and 15 hours for the next reward. Otherwise, they can collect the Daily Reward within 15 hours. Previously, players could only collect after this time limit, but it was changed to accommodate players' schedules.
If a player logs in every day, they can continue their streak for up to five days, where on the fifth day, the player receives a Gift and 12-20 stars, and the rewards restart. Every 30 days, players receive a Cracked Egg.
When a player has obtained a certain amount of stars, they can claim a reward. These rewards include toys, vehicles, pets, and a Golden Egg (or Diamond Egg if the player has claimed a Golden Egg at least once) at 660 stars.
| Day | Reward |
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| Day 1 |  25 and 1 Star
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| Day 2 | 50 and 1 star
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| Day 3 | 100 and 1 Star
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| Day 4 | 200 and 1 Star
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| Day 5 | Small Gift and 5 Stars |
| Day 10 | Big Gift and 10 Stars |
| Day 15 | Standard Chest and 10 Stars |
| Day 20 | Regal Chest and 15 Stars |
| Day 25 | Massive Gift and 15 Stars |
| Day 30 | Cracked Egg and 20 Stars |
Previously, players would receive a Paycheck of 20 periodically for playing the game.
Pets and Babies
Bucks can be earned when the player takes care of themselves as a Baby, taking care of Babies as a Parent, or taking care of a pet. Players receive tasks to complete, which can be viewed at the top of the screen. Being the baby and equipping a pet doubles the amount of money players can earn.
Objectives
- Dirty: Players can complete this task by purchasing and interacting with a shower or bathtub inside their house. Players can also use showers at the Campsite once they receive the "Camping" task.
- Hungry: Players can complete this task by interacting with food items or a pet feeder.
- Thirsty: Players can complete this task by interacting with drink items or a pet feeder.
- Sleepy: Players can complete this task by interacting with beds in areas such as the School or their house.
There are also orange objectives. All of these tasks aside from 'Sick', require players to go to an area for a certain amount of time. These tasks are only available for a limited amount of time and reward more Bucks.
- Bored: Go to the Playground. Boredom can also be cured by playing the piano at a player's house.
- Camping: Go to the Campsite.
- Beach Party: Go to the Beach Party.
- School: Go to the School.
- Sick: Go to the Hospital. There are three ways for a player to heal themselves at the Hospital: talking to Doctor Heart, consuming Healing Apples, or sitting on an operation bed.
- Pizza Party: Go to the Pizza Shop.
- Salon: Go to the Salon.
There are some objectives that only pets can receive.
- Catch: This task can be completed by equipping and using a throw toy with the pet.
- Potty: This task can be completed by bringing a pet to a fire hydrant around the Adoption Island or Neighborhood, or interacting with a toilet or litter box furniture item.
- Ride: This task can be completed by riding a pet or equipping a vehicle or stroller and transporting the pet with it.
- Walk: This task can be completed by walking around with the pet.
- Pet Me: This task can be completed by entering the needs menu and clicking and dragging the cursor over the pet.
Every so often, a 3x Bucks and XP bonus will be offered to the player if they fulfill a specific item request for the catch, ride, walk, hungry, and thirsty tasks.
Occasionally, players will be prompted to choose their pet's next task, which causes a purple circle with a white question mark in the middle to appear. When selected, they can then choose one of three random tasks. The sick task as well as any task the pet already has cannot be chosen.
During events, there are special ailments. These were only available for a limited amount of time, and currently, players cannot receive any of these.
- Graveyard: This ailment replaced the "Bored" ailment during the Halloween Event (2019). Players could go to the Graveyard to complete the task or play minigames there to obtain
Candy. - Haunted House: This ailment replaced the "School" ailment during the Halloween Event (2019). Players could go to the Haunted House to complete the task or teach their pets or hunt for ghosts.
- Ice Skating: Skate over the frozen lake and collect the gingerbread men scattered over the ice while avoiding penguins during the Christmas Event (2019). Upon bumping into a penguin, players lost some gingerbread men, the amount depending on how much they had collected so far.
- Training Reindeer: Go to the stables in the Winter Village during the Christmas Event (2019) and select a reindeer. Players needed to fly the reindeer to obtain gingerbread men. The reindeer could only fly for a limited amount of time, so if players injure them by crashing them onto the ground, they would have lost
200. - Moon: Travel to the Moon during the Lunar New Year (2025). Players could travel there to complete the task and collect
Shooting Stars.
Trading
- Main article: Trade System
Trading is a main gameplay feature in Adopt Me! which allows users to exchange their items for other players' items. Until November 5, 2020, players were only able to trade 4 items at once. After the Trading Update was released, this limit was increased to 9 items. On May 5, 2023, the limit was increased to 18 items, along with the addition of trade chat notifications which allows players to keep track of changes made within a trade.
In order to trade Ultra-Rare and Legendary items, players are required to own a Trade License, which can be obtained by taking the Trade License test. The Trade License test takes place at the Safety Hub, where players can also access the Trade Book to view trade history and learn about trading safely to prevent scams.
Rarities
Rarities are the rankings given to Pets, Pet Accessories, Strollers, Food, Vehicles, Toys, Gifts, and Stickers.
The rarities include:
- Common
- Uncommon
- Rare
- Ultra-Rare
- Legendary
Rarities affect the aging process of pets. Common pets require the least amount of tasks completed to reach the next age, and Legendary pets require the most.
Listed below are the number of tasks required to complete when aging a pet from Newborn to Full Grown:
| Rarity | Number of tasks |
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| Common | 56 |
| Uncommon | 80 |
| Rare | 120 |
| Ultra-Rare | 160 |
| Legendary | 275 |
Neon Pets
- Main article: Neon Pets
Neon Pets have a unique glow around certain parts of their body.
Players can make Neon pets in the Neon Cave. They can merge four fully grown pets of the same species.
Inside the Neon Cave, players can fuse spirits of their pets by placing four full-grown pets of the same type onto the four glowing circles around the edge of the platform, causing them to coalesce and become one pet. The new pet will glow 'neon' in different spots of its body. Neon pets can glow in different places than others.
Mega Neon Pets
- Main article: Mega Neons
Mega Neons Pets glow in different cycles of color around certain parts of their body.
Players can make Mega Neon Pets in the Neon Cave. They can merge four fully grown Neon pets of the same species.
Inside the Neon Cave, players can fuse spirits of their Neon pets by placing four fully grown (Luminous) Neon pets of the same type onto the four glowing circles around the edge of the platform, causing them to coalesce and become one pet. After combining these four Neon Pets, players receive a color-changing pet that cycles through various colors of the rainbow (though there are some exceptions).
Jobs
- Main article: Jobs
Jobs are a way of earning Bucks. All jobs currently pay 15 per minute with a maximum of 50 per Adopt Me! day, though the Chef job pays 10 for every Pizza made. There are currently 9 jobs in total: Doctor, Nurse, Principal, Teacher, Manager, Chef, Waiter/Waitress, Salon Manager, and Stylist. These jobs can be claimed at the Hospital, School, Pizza Shop, and Salon.
Task Board
- Main article: Task Board
Players receive daily tasks from the Task Board, such as “Give or receive an ultra-rare in a trade” or “Make a Neon pet”. Completing tasks will give the player a reward. Some tasks give the player Bucks, while some more difficult tasks give the player special items, such as the RGB Reward Box. Players can use the button located at the top corner of a task to refresh it and receive a new task. This can only be done once per day. The Task Board can also teleport the player to certain event locations.